We appreciate the enormous support that our ABestWeb community has experienced over the many years it has served its members and sponsors. We have decided to exit this business and have placed the property up for sale and we are actively entertaining interest.

In the meantime, community members will be able to read but not post to ABestWeb beginning on Jan. 18.

We want to thank you for your numerous contributions and your ongoing support. If you have any questions, please let us know.

We will be sending out an email with details to the network but I just wanted to give a quick heads up now that we have completed our investigations.

We had some unplanned downtime affecting tracking on the network for approximately 3 and a 1/2 hours on Tuesday evening this week.

Basically it was a very unfortunate double break in the Verizon fibre network, or more specifically 2 separate third party networks suffered the cuts, and portions of the network we use were affected. According to a report we were sent you'd normally never expect to see 2 cuts happen at the same time, and the networks are engineered to accept a single cut with no interruption of service. Two cuts however meant the network went down.

The period was just short of our failover period to move to our backup services but we will of course be reviewing the situation ongoing to see if we can further minimize our risk against rare situations like this.

It’s not something we had control over but we do not want our affiliates to suffer any loss of commissions because of the interruption in service.

With this in mind we have made calculations based on the two previous days commissions for the same period of time and will be applying this compensation over the next few days to our affiliate’s accounts.

Thanks everyone

Best

Mal

Last edited by buy at; January 18th, 2008 at 12:10 PM.
Reason: removed name of network

Thanks Beachy - I can't wait for the day when doing something like this is almost taken for granted by everyone.

I hope we can set an example for some of the other networks that play in the big brand space to follow so the whole industry matures faster to the point where it really is a " relationship" industry built on "trust" and "respect" for all parties.

One day we will get there!! I can promise you i'll be working hard to make it happen from my side and I know that affiliates want it from there side so with all that energy and drive we can do it!!